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THE debate in the House of Commons on January 20 on the occasion of the third reading of the Overseas Resources Development Bill was poorly attended ; the apparent lack of interest was the more remarkable, since, as Mr. Creech Jones quite rightly said in moving the third reading, the Bill had the general support of all political parties and had been acclaimed with some enthusiasm outside the House. The Secretary of State for the Colonies asserted, indeed, that the Bill was as much designed for the purpose of meeting the needs of the world as for meeting the special needs of the Colonial peoples. As Sir Frank Stockdale pointed out in a discourse at the Royal Institution on January 23 (see p. 337), it marks a further big step forward in the British conception of Colonial development, from the social and economic schemes planned under the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts of 1940 and 1945, in exploiting the economic resources for the general development of these territories.
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British Colonial Development. Nature 161, 331–333 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161331a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161331a0